#norm

America's largest trade deficit is with China, a nation that enjoys Permanent Normal Trade Relations with the U.S. and ties its currency to the dollar to make it a more competitive trading partner. ↗

— Jo Ann Emerson

#china #competitive #currency #deficit #dollar

I never wanted to write the sort of song that said, 'Look at how abnormal and crazy and out there I am, man!' ↗

— Brian Eno

#am #crazy #how #i #i am

My instincts told me that death would somehow be…different. But my rational mind reminded me that I had probably tempted fate one too many times. At least, I thought it was my rational mind. It sure seemed like the usual voice inside my head. Thank God there was only one of them. ↗

— M.A. George

#paranormal-romance #sarcastic-humor #voices-inside-your-head #death

As I write at the end, if we step back and face the enormity of the torrent, then we have taken the first step to imagining what we might want to do about it. ↗

— Todd Gitlin

#back #end #enormity #face #first

It's a lot of fun to play someone you don't normally think of yourself as. ↗

— Harvey Fierstein

#lot #normally #play #someone #think

The technological breakthrough of the World Wide Web has been enormously beneficial to society. ↗

— Mike Fitzpatrick

#beneficial #breakthrough #enormously #society #technological

With gridlock the norm, Congress's approval rating is below 10 percent and the public has lost faith in its national leadership. ↗

— Ron Fournier

#below #congress #faith #leadership #lost

Maybe if I'd not been able to kick a ball it would have been different, but I doubt it because all my mates are decent blokes now, just normal fellas with families. ↗

— Robbie Fowler

#ball #because #been #blokes #decent

The general view is that actors start on soaps and then maybe graduate to prime-time television or film; normally you don't see a film actor going to do a soap. ↗

— James Franco

#film #film actor #general #going #graduate

It can have an enormous effect because big budget movies can have big budget perks, and small budget movies have no perks, but what is the driving force, of course, is the script, and your part in it. ↗

— Morgan Freeman

#big #big budget #budget #course #driving